EU to blacklist Russia for money laundering – Politico
The European Commission has decided to add Russia to its blacklist of countries with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
The European Commission has decided to add Russia to its blacklist of countries with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
The Third Army Corps stated that the information about the so-called Russian breakthrough in the city of Lyman in Donetsk region is not true and is “a lie of the Russian Federation's high command.”
Turkey maintains contacts with Ukraine and Russia to intensify the Istanbul negotiation process and is ready to contribute to establishing a just and lasting peace.
Ukrainian defense forces continue their defensive operation in Pokrovsk. Information published by the German newspaper Bild about the complete capture of the city by Russian troops and the “end of the battle” is not true.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov reported to President Volodymyr Zelensky on preparations for today's talks with European leaders' national security advisers, scheduled to take place in Brussels.
On the first night of winter in Russia, an explosion occurred on the Druzhba oil pipeline, through which Russian oil continues to be supplied to some European countries, fueling the aggressor's financial and military capabilities.
As of the morning of December 3, consumers in four regions were left without power due to Russian attacks.
Germany, Poland, and Norway will jointly provide a new support package for Ukraine totaling $500 million, with Berlin contributing $200 million.
Ukrainian defenders are organizing additional logistics routes to Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad to ensure uninterrupted supply to units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
The UK government is providing a new aid package to support the restoration of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged by Russian strikes.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, two hits were recorded on the ATAN fuel depot in the village of Hvardiiske following a drone attack the previous evening.
Russian forces attacked the trolleybus depot in Kherson with artillery during the night, damaging the overhead contact network, production facilities, administrative building, and 19 trolleybuses.
During the night of December 3, Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that 102 drones were “intercepted and destroyed” during attacks on several Russian regions. Regional authorities in Russia confirmed a strike on a fuel depot in Tambov region as well as damage to fuel tanks in Voronezh region.
An energy infrastructure facility in Odesa district sustained damage as a result of a drone attack during the night of December 3. An employee of the enterprise was severely injured.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 83 out of 111 drones that Russia used to attack Ukraine starting in the evening of December 2.
There were 201 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders on the frontline in the past 24 hours, on December 2.
The Kremlin described Tuesday’s talks with U.S. representatives as useful, but noted that no compromise on a peace plan for Ukraine had been reached.
Russian forces killed two people in the Donetsk region on December 2. Five more people were injured.
In the Kherson region, over the course of a day, one person was killed and three others were injured as a result of Russian aggression.
Russian troops attacked three districts of Dnipropetrovsk region during the night. Two people were killed and three more were injured.
A fuel depot was destroyed in Russia's Tambov region.
Russia suffered approximately 1,176,230 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and December 3, 2025, with 1,200 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
The United States is working on resolving the war in Ukraine and seeks to help the conflicting sides overcome their differences, but the decision to end hostilities will be made by Kyiv and Moscow.
Fighters from the Steel Border strike UAV unit of the Border Guard Brigade destroyed three shelters used by the Russian invaders on the Kursk axis.
Using FPV drones, border guards destroyed an ammunition depot, a communications antenna, a generator, a loitering drone, and three shelters belonging to the Russian invaders in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna direction.
Operators from the unmanned systems units of the 15th Kara-Dag Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed a tank, a self-propelled artillery installation, and the electronic warfare assets of the Russian invaders in the Kupiansk sector.
The Commission has proposed a legal solution that would help dispel Belgium's concerns about using EUR 140 billion in Russian assets frozen in Brussels to issue a loan to Ukraine.
As of the end of 2025, only 31 people remained out of a population of 5,000 in the Yunakivka community in the Sumy region.
Japan has so far supplied Ukraine with equipment and machinery for humanitarian demining worth over $60 million.